New york famous book row that ran along Fourth Avenue from astor place to union square with 48 used bookstores that competed with one another they have all shuddered except for the strand so thank you for a shifts readers we are Still Family Owned and thriving in fact 400 events and discussions just like tonight and even tonight we have four events it is really fun. [applause] and also thank you cspan for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine us some large enough to send every family of four check of 40000 for their care and happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight doctor harding will discuss this as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and diplomat to the american board of psychiatry and neurology work in the emergency room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and as a daughter of a 91 yearold i spend a lot of timeld there so i have a lot of admiration. She has appeared on Good Morning America netscape and u. S. News world rep
And discussions just like the one tonight, and even tonight we have four events. So its just really fun. So [applause] thank you. And thank you, cspan, for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine, yet americans will spend 3 billion on medicine and health care this year. A sum thats large enough of to send every family of four a check for 40,000 for their care. And we all know that happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight, dr. Kelli harding, will discuss this. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a diplomat to the american board of psychiatric and neurology. Dr. Hardings work in the emergency room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and as the daughter of a 91yearold, i spend a lot of time there, so i have a lot of admiration. She has appeared on today, good morning america, npr, New York Times and the u. S. News and world report. Dr. Harding is here as the author of the rabbit effect. Yea. [applause] starting with the
Test. Test. We also know that while these institutions are doing the most work to close that achievement gap, and advance economic mobility, theyre severely underresourced. Its great to see the Community Coming together in a bipartisan way to prioritize and address this issue, and i look forward to working with all of you on this. Madam chairwoman, id like to enter into the record this report by the United Negro College fund, which is led by my close friend, michael lomax, who actually the emcee when i was sworn in to congress in our event just recently, entitled the hcbus make america strong, the positive impact of historically black colleges and universities. So ordered. Thank you. The 2017 report found that the total Economic Impact in the u. S. Is 14. 8 billion annually. The equivalent of ranking among the top 200 corporations on the fortune 500 list. In maryland, we have four hbcus that generate 1 billion in economic output and 10,000 jobs. A maryland graduate can expect to make a
Welcome. Orning and the subcommittee on Higher Education and workforce investment will come to order. We are happy you are here. I know a quorum is present. I want to ask can sense they be permitted to participate in todays hearing with the understanding your questions will come after all members have completed their questions. The committee is eating to hear testimony on engines of economic mobility. The Critical Role of Community Colleges, historically lacked minorities serving and institutions preparing students for success. ,ursuant to Committee Rules Opening Statements are limited to the chair in the Ranking Member and this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. We will examine the Critical Role of historically black colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges and universities, and committee colleges in providing low income students and students o
the world. when we look at where we are economically and we are a stronger economically we have been in history. steve: historic. best in the world. maybe in their world but not in the real world it is the reality this labor day weekend joe biden america is working. yes it is true the unemployment rate is low but the main reason the rate is low because so many americans stopped looking for work just this week we saw the latest figures for job openings way ahead of expectation nearly an all-time record spinning this with good news people are hiring. no. they cannot find people to do the work one of the reasons why we have runaway inflation. look at this we keep focusing on this because it is so important the labor participation rate is still the lowest outside of the pandemic shut down for 45 years is just over 60 percent that means 40 percent of americans of working age are not working. that s not just an economic disaster but social disaster study after study has shown hav